Product Description

Experience 87 minutes of hypnotic retinal bliss by San Francisco VJ and software artist Spot a.k.a. Scott Draves. Five video tracks sync with electronic music by jhno, Spool, dj vordo, and mbb. Three more tracks sync with music by techno-violin sensation Kenji Williams (ABA Structure), including an original track not released elsewhere. See three unique and original styles: Dub Visuals, Electric Sheep, and Bomb, each with a documentary explanation. Includes looping tracks with solid backgrounds for use by VJs.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18694 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-03-31
• Rating: Unrated
• Format: NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 111 minutes

Cory Doctorow, author of Eastern Standard Tribe and co-editor of Boing Boing.
This isn't just trippy wallpaper---it's not even just art. This is garage-band artificial life.

Erik Davis, author of Techgnosis and contributing writer to Wired Magazine
Scott Draves has significantly raised the bar on digital psychedelia and the broader category of abstract animation. Mind-melting stuff.

Customer Reviews

Delicious
I thought that after a while I would get sick of this DVD - I've now played it far more than I expected to. However, it's not like that at all.
The reverse is true. The dance between visuals and sound just keeps getting better and better each time I play it.
One day it's diving into the exquisite visuals of a fractal journey that holds me captive. The next time it's the river of mood and moments, captured in audio and triggering a massage for the eardrums.
A beautiful, organic, sequence of digital life.

Is this a peek into the teeming world of a drop of water or am I observing images light years across?
Both seem apt.

Enjoy this journey. I still do.

amazing
simply put, scott draves is one of the best algorithmic/generative artists. while the fractal flame software is available for download, and you can make your own strange attractor renderings, owning this dvd saves you potentially thousands of hours of rendering time, it's from the artist himself, and it's all tied together with music and other work. with all of the hack job "Art dvd"'s out there, this is one of the few truly original and groundbreaking pieces.

Infinity in a grain of pixels.
Admittedly I was in an induced "receptive" state of consciousness while viewing this DVD, but I don't think that condition invalidates my amazement with these motion graphics. Unlike most computer aided animation, these pieces feel like they could be timeless. As an animator myself, my impression of the first minute or so was cynical and critical and then I "got it". Whatever you get out of viewing this depends on how much attention you pay to the details it triggers in your imagination. If you patiently allow these visuals to unfold (because some are really slow), it can be like kinetic meditation.

Well worth the price and certainly worth supporting the hours of work it must have taken to create this art.